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Steve sat down with 20th Century Fox CEO recently at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, and we've been bringing you highlights from their wide-ranging conversation. We already shared what Rothman had to say about a New Mutants movie and the rating for Prometheus, the Rise of the Planet of the Apes sequel, and now we wanted to share the CEO's updates on a few highly anticipated Fox properties. Rothman talked about the status of the studio's Fantastic Four reboot, Daredevil, and a sequel to this year's hit superhero pic Chronicle. Hit the jump for what he had to say.
Back in early January, before Chronicle even opened, we learned that Fox was incredibly keen on having director Josh Trank take over the Fantastic Four franchise based on having seen early cuts of the found-footage superhero movie. Chronicle finally opened and struck a chord with both audiences and critics, and now Rothman confirms that Trank will be working on Fantastic Four:
"Josh Trank who did Chronicle, I think this has been reported, is gonna come on and work on a take, or a vision, that he has for it, so we're very excited about that."
While Trank is definitely working on the Fantastic Four in some capacity, Rothman was remiss to confirm that he's 100% directing it:
"Well, I think there's a possibility of [him directing]. I mean he's gonna develop it now, and then it depends on the script."
Trank is most likely inundated with offers coming off of Chronicle (he's been linked to Venom and an adaptation of The Red Star), but I'd love to see his take on Fantastic Four. Fox's previous two film versions of the comic book series weren't exactly awe-inspiring, so I'm anxious to see what direction Trank would take the franchise.
Speaking of Trank, it was announced in March that original writer Max Landis had been hired to pen a sequel to Chronicle. Rothman had encouraging news on that front:
"[Chronicle 2] is in very active development. I think you'll see that sooner rather than later."
There's still no word on whether Trank would return as director for Chronicle 2, but it's encouraging to know that the follow-up is in the hands of the man who created the characters in the first place.
Additionally, Rothman spoke briefly about the Daredevil reboot that has David Slade (30 Days of Night) attached to direct:
"It's in development; we're working on the script."
This is basically the same thing we heard in December, but hopefully they're just taking the time to really nail the script. Fringe's Brad Caleb Kane came aboard the project last summer to pen a script based on Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's classic 1986 arc (spanning issues #227-233) "Born Again". Be sure to check back here on Collider soon for more updates on upcoming Fox projects from Steve's conversation with Rothman.


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We had a pleasure to talk to Igor Mikushov and Ekaterina Romashkina who won the Professional Rising Star Ballroom at the UK Open 2014. Igor and Ekaterina represent USA.
[Ekaterina]: It is never obvious! It was a very happy moment, we wanted to win badly. We were prepared but you never know, somebody can be better than you even if it is your best night. Somebody can have even better night so you never know until the results are there. We are over the moon!
[Ekaterina]: Well, we did not look at that (laughing)
[Igor]: There was another American couple in the final, Denis and Lesya, and we often compete with each other.
[Igor]: There are lots of young dancers already born there but their parents come from many other countries.
[Ekaterina]: There are a lot of young Amateur couples getting good results and they were born in USA. But most of the Professionals come from the other countries.
[Ekaterina]: In Russia or Ukraine it is normal for the young kids, dancers, to practice for three hours a day or more. There is discipline.
[Igor]: Parents have different attitude as well. They tend to be stricter with their kids and don't listen to any excuses.
[Ekaterina]: It is like: if you going to be dancing, you must do it 100%! If you don't want to do it, we don't want to waste money and time. In USA there are good schools where kids can do dancing and most of them, some 80%, have parents who came from Russia or Poland or Ukraine and these parents still have that attitude. I call it European mentality (laughing).
[Ekaterina]: Oh, we know each other for a long time.
[Igor]: We dance together for over four years but in the meantime we split up and get back together.
[Igor]: I started dancing when I was nine. I come from Tomsk in Siberia. I started there and I was dancing there till I was seventeen. I got very good results and I was top Junior and Youth competitor. When I was seventeen I moved to Moscow. At the time I was dancing both Latin and Ballroom, I was dancing 10 Dance till 2008.
[Ekaterina]: He is a Latin boy really
[Igor]: We danced Latin with Katya as well. We met there when she was fifteen. She was my first partner in Moscow.
[Ekaterina]: I am from Moscow and I came to dancing when I was nine as well. My older cousin used to dance and I used to go to see them compete. I loved all the feathers and glitter and I said to my parents: I have to be a dancer too. They brought me to the studio and that's how I started. When I was fifteen I met Igor and it got more serious. It was a very successful partnership, we travelled a lot, went to England to Blackpool in 2004. It was a great experience. We were together for some four years and then Igor moved to America.
[Igor]: I wanted some change. I wanted to try something different...
[Igor]: Well, at that time Anna Demidova, Katiusha's sister, was looking for a partner. We met in the UK for try-out and decided to give it a go.
[Ekaterina]: Yes, it was actually a pretty painful split for me at the time. But we were good friends for a long time, we also studied together in the same university (Russian Academy of Theatrical Arts) in the same faculty. When we started dancing together we decided to study in the same place to make it easier with the travelling and all the other commitments.
[Igor]: We had a lot of very good teachers at the university. There were only seventeen students doing Ballroom there and it was a very good group.
[Ekaterina]: It was a great experience. Studying there taught us a lot about history of dance, about other styles of dancing, methodology of teaching. It was really exciting.
[Igor]: We used to do classic dance, flamenco, character dancing, all sorts of styles.
[Ekaterina]: Before the split I did not have a clue that he had all these other plans. In my mind, we had competitions planned for the whole coming year. We grew really successful, had Blackpool finals and International finals behind us. We knew many people. When we split up I wanted to dance even more, to get better and beat him (laughing)! I went to UK for try-outs, I had a period of dancing with a partner but it did not really work out. Then I met Dusan and we moved to Italy to live in the house of Catherina Arzenton. I am really thankful to her for such a great experience. She gave me so much knowledge and passion for dancing. We danced with Dusan for nearly three years. We travelled a lot, moved a lot. We were in Serbia, in Italy. We competed a lot as well and we were really successful. But it was a difficult partnership and, at some point, it was right for me to end it.
[Igor]: In Russia, our teachers were Stanislav Bekmametov and Natalia Urban to whom we are very thankful. They helped us a lot
[Ekaterina]: They brought us up really. I know them since I was twelve and they were my teachers till I was twenty. They really made it possible for me to move from the hobby level to the serious, international level. They brought us to England and to Italy. They opened our minds.
[Igor]: I danced with Anna Demidova for two years and we were quite successful but at some point I could see the partnership did not work out as planned. So we decided to split up. I then found another partner, Margaret, and we had good results. We were national US champions and got the finals of the Rising Stars in Blackpool. Everything was looking good but Margaret wanted to become a dentist and one day just decided to quit dancing for good. I was left with no partner and could not find a new one for almost a year…
[Ekaterina]: After Dusan I went back to Moscow. I had one or two partners for a short time but had to stop dancing for nearly a year because of problems with my foot. I had an operation and was not sure if I could come back to dancing at all. So there was a bit of drama in my life at the time. But when I was at home, not dancing, Igor kept on writing to me: let's get together again, let's start all over again. So I said, OK, let's have a try-out
[Igor]: I came to Moscow to visit my parents and to have a try-out with Katya.
[Ekaterina]: I did not dance for a while so when I put my shoes on I was very nervous. And there was a lot of pain as well when we danced. My feet hurt but dancing together felt so good. To be honest we remained friendly, the relationship did not go bad when we split up before so dancing together felt natural. So I was like let's do it, let's give it a go! It meant moving to America but I was ready to go.
[Igor]: It took some three more months for Katya to get all the paperwork together.
[Ekaterina]: And I was recovering from my operation so could not really start competing right away. So by the time I got the passport and visa I recovered and in July 2012 we did our first competition together.
[Igor]: One month after she moved to America
[Ekaterina]: It was such a big challenge for me. And very exciting time. I was not sure will I be able to handle dancing a big competition in the regular shoes. We were practicing a lot as well. One week after I arrived, we were doing all the regular practice, all the dances.
[Igor]: Mentally I was prepared. I had a year off dancing but maybe it was a good thing. Sometimes you need a little break to work on different aspects, your body, your physical strength. And when the time comes you are ready.
[Ekaterina]: We were both waiting for that first competition for a long time. When it came it came out well. It was very exciting. It was a big competition in New York and was a success for us. We danced as Amateurs then, and got the second place.
[Igor]: For a full year we danced in Amateurs. First competition in Professional division was Embassy Ball in August last year.
[Ekaterina]: We danced a lot of competitions for this last half year. It feels so much better to be Professional for us. I suppose you have to be mentally ready for that transition. At some point I felt not only that I am ready but that I actually need it! I felt I really need to go to another level.
[Igor]: There is no difference in dancing but there is a difference in attitude. People understand that this is a final stage in their competitive career.
[Ekaterina]: When we danced in Amateur we were sometimes upset with our results. But now in Professionals, even though the results are not always as we want them, we are most of the time happy. We look up to couples who dance for many years in the finals and it is amazing to be on the same floor with them. It gives you this extra incentive to go further. You have all of them as examples to yourselves.
[Igor]: When you dance the competitions you get more and more experience and when you look at all these top Professionals you feel they went through this already.
[Ekaterina]: And you know you can learn a lot from them even when you compete against each other.
[Igor]: But dancing-wise there is no difference.
[Ekaterina]: We still follow the same principles.
[Igor]: For now, it is great for us, we don't feel any pressure. There is definitely less pressure than in Amateurs where we were expected to win. In Professionals there is not so much expectation so I feel that it lets us relax. You have to push yourself, do as much as you can, but with less stress.
[Ekaterina]: We feel very positive really
[Igor]: When you are on the floor dancing alongside Victor or Arunas or Andrea there is this special emotion and different point of view.
[Ekaterina]: It feels very motivating when you know the judges have to compare you to these couples.
[Ekaterina]: No, very motivating. Because they are so good.
[Igor]: The field is much stronger and you feel you can do more than you ever thought you could.
[Ekaterina]: When you lose to some couples you might be upset. But then you look at them in the next round and you realise there are things you still need to learn.
[Ekaterina]: We don't feel competitive with Arunas and Katusha. They are our main teachers. We look at them as examples
[Igor]: And with respect.
[Ekaterina]: They have so many more years of experience behind them. So we look up to them and try to achieve the same level.
[Igor]: You have to learn to take criticism as well. It is difficult but necessary. It comes with age and experience as well. Even changing partners gives you that experience. It can hurt but you have to do it. Otherwise you stop improving.
[Ekaterina]: Hmmm (laughing)
[Igor]: Our personalities are really strong. I think we take criticisms from teachers reasonably well (laughing). From each other… not that easy.
[Ekaterina]: But I think I am improving that as well. Sometimes when Igor says something to me and I think he is wrong, I talk to myself, take it positively and try to see his reason and try to improve that particular thing.
[Ekaterina]: No, but we are good friends.
[Igor]: We have our girlfriend and boyfriend
[Ekaterina]: I think it helps us to get along better.
[Ekaterina]: Self-criticism…. It is tough.
[Igor]: I can be really stubborn. It depends on my mood a lot. Sometimes if you did not sleep enough or you worked a lot it is much harder to be open minded and positive!
[Ekaterina]: Come on! You being stubborn is sometimes an advantage
[Igor]: Again, if I have time to think about it for a minute or two, think whether I was 100% correct, I may change my mind or I may not. It is good to be flexible. Sometimes it is impossible because of my personality and my emotions. I can be difficult. I'm a Zodiac Scorpio and was born in a year of Tiger, so no surprises here! (laughing)
[Ekaterina]: I don't know what to say. I don't want to give away my secrets! (laughing). OK, sometimes I can be overactive. I cannot calm down. I cannot take things easy and relax. I tend to worry too much and can be anxious. I try not to show it but it is going over and over in my head like competition results or some life situation. I should not worry so much, I know that. The definitely gives my problems sometimes (laughing).
[Ekaterina]: Well, I think I am an achiever. When I decide to do something I get into it 100%. I have clear goals and I focus on them. I know when I work on something I give it 100% and don't have regrets that I could do more.
[Ekaterina]: I agree, it is annoying (laughing). But his stubbornness has two sides. Sometimes it is actually the best in him. If he gets something in his head and doesn't want to listen it irritates me. He wants to prove he is right and wants you to believe he is right. I am different. When people don't think I am right I can just say, fine, that's your problem. I am OK with it. But Igor keeps on and on, because he wants you to admit he is right. But sometimes it is great because it brings us results. His idea is right and he wants to prove it to me. I may not see it at first but he convinces me.
[Ekaterina]: I am perfect (laughing)
[Igor]: Not always! I am looking for corrects words (laughing). Sometimes I think she is too emotional. Many women are. But sometimes she is just too emotional. It can lead to arguments and fighting. But then we calm down. The air clears out, and it is good.
[Igor]: Our dancing. Or how to make it better.
[Ekaterina]: I see it one way, and he sometimes sees it another way
[Igor]: It can be any aspect. It can be musicality we disagree about. It could be anything.
[Ekaterina]: But it doesn't happen too often. We are really good together. I know, I had partners who could really fight! So I know we are good.
[Igor]: The best it is to have a teacher next to you. Two or three times a week. He or she can help you to deal with these problems. Your mood swings much less (laughing). If, say, we don't have a teacher for two, three weeks or a month sometimes, our work suffers. When we have these breaks, without the teacher, then we start to fight.
[Ekaterina]: We fight trying to find the best result.
[Ekaterina]: Yes, it is easier. Of course, we are grown up and can deal with things but if somebody is around they see it from outside and it is easier.
[Igor]: It is good to have a team around you to help you to grow, to improve, to help you to correct your problems.
[Ekaterina]: And to have people around who care about you.
[Igor]: … who believe in you. And people who you trust. It is very important.
[Ekaterina]: We have a very positive team.
[Ekaterina]: Waltz – inspiration
[Igor]: Waltz – hmmm…. Loyalty, something like this. It is very warm dance.
[Ekaterina]: Tango – explosion
[Igor]: Passion
[Ekaterina]: Foxtrot – softness, musicality
[Igor]: Hmmm…. It is difficult. Foxtrot is my favourite dance. So it is hard to find one word really. I feel really good dancing Foxtrot. Perhaps… jazzy.
[Ekaterina]: Quickstep – playful, sparkle…
[Igor]: Happiness.
[Ekaterina]: I would say Rumba and Foxtrot.
[Igor]: Jive and Quickstep
[Ekaterina]: Tango and Paso Doble of course.
[Igor]: Waltz is waltz. You cannot find anything like that in Latin. However, technically, maybe Samba
[Ekaterina]: Well, have some similarities in raise and fall (laughing). But it doesn't come through my mind really. Technically yes, but if you associate based on emotions or character, than no.
[Igor]: As I said, my favourite dance is definitely the Foxtrot.
[Ekaterina]: I don't. It is changing all the time for me. Depending on my mood, or what period of development we are. It changes from Quickstep to Waltz to Tango…
[Ekaterina]: I have been always struggling with Samba. I don't like Samba (laughing)
[Igor]: I think that my favourite dance, when I danced it, was Paso Doble.
[Ekaterina]: Because we are standard dancers, we did Paso well (laughing)
[Igor]: I also like Cha Cha.
[Ekaterina]: I was joking a bit earlier that I don't like Samba, because of my personal experience. But I love watching the good dancers dancing Samba, it is lovely.
[Igor]: Actually, I enjoy all the dances. But if I have to choose a favourite, that's my favourite. They are different, and all are nice.
[Ekaterina]: I think, as we have much better experience dancing Ballroom, we look at these dances differently. It is a different point of view if you are a dancer or spectator.
[Igor]: Russian is favourite
[Ekaterina]: Cooking from your home is what you miss most.
[Igor]: I like Italian food. I also like American food, like burgers.
[Ekaterina]: The good ones, not the MacDonald ones but from a good steak house.
[Igor]: We have so much choice in America. I also like sushi a lot, I like Mexican food. Most favourite is Russian but I also like others.
[Ekaterina]: I like Italian food, because when I used to live there I had a lot of really good pastas and pizzas. It stayed with me. Recently I started enjoying Spanish food. Spanish-American actually.
[Ekaterina]: Well, we have preferences but don't want to overdo eating. Of course, you should not overdo anything really. I don't like fast food and don't like to eat too much bread, carbs and potatoes. It is not my kind of thing. I like meat and vegetables. But I don't do diets.
[Igor]: Because of practising and working every day we don't have time to eat properly. When you spend over 10 hours a day on the floor you don't really have time to think much about it.
[Ekaterina]: And you burn everything. So our work helps to keep us slim, we don't have to diet.
[Igor]: When you stop practising you may gain couple of pounds (laughing).
[Igor]: Both.
[Ekaterina]: We help each other, discuss it first but it is so easy to book it all online.
[Ekaterina]: I have my beloved sponsors Atelier Aspesi from Italy. I have been with them for a long time, since I started dancing in Italy. They still continue sponsoring me when I am in America. We have very good relationship with them. I love designing dresses so I do that and send my designs out to Italy. Sometimes they correct something or offer they advise so it is a cooperation really. I love working with those people.
[Igor]: Sometimes she asks me what colour she should go for
[Ekaterina]: Yes, sometimes I do because, say, I want blue and he doesn't. So I have to have a second choice. I show him the designs but he is, like, OK….
[Igor]: I made my last tail suit with Alexander Tailor from California. I am pretty happy with it. I tried many different designs with many different tailors in Russia, in Italy, Lithuania but this one is pretty good.
[Igor]: My girlfriend is also a dancer. She is dancing right now (laughing). We also most of the time are on the floor practising at the same time.
[Ekaterina]: We have like a little close team, two couples practising together.
[Ekaterina]: No, no. It's her brother.
[Igor]: My girlfriend dances with her brother, were born in America but have Russian roots.
[Ekaterina]: My boyfriend is at home, working right now. He is in the dance field as well. It makes it really easy. He can understand a lot.
[Ekaterina]: I can see that. It could be tough and need a lot of love to make it all work
[Ekaterina]: Yes, I have. Most of my friends are in Russia and my family is there. We have Skype so we can keep in touch easily.
[Ekaterina]: Well, when I have morning in America they have an evening in Russia. It is nine hours difference. On my way to work, when I am driving, I put my headphones on and we can have a chat. That works.
[Igor]: Most of my friends outside of dancing are from Russia, from Tomsk in Siberia where I was in school as a kid. After I left I kept in touch but all the people I met since then were really from dancing. I studied dancing at the University as well, and all the students there were all dancers. So most of my friends are somehow connected to dancing.
[Ekaterina]: One of my good friends used to be a dancer, but now she is in New York and I am happy for that. She is not competing anymore but I can share everything with her I can talk to her when I need to talk.
[Ekaterina]: I would still like to be in the field. I love to do hair and make-up, I am very excited about that. I would love to design dresses as well.
[Igor]: I was pretty good in maths at school. I would probably go that way, some technology way.
[Ekaterina]: If it was not connected to dancing, I would probably study languages. I love learning new languages, it comes quite easily for me as well.
[Igor]: I used to play soccer at school, I probably spent half of my time on the football field and half dancing. I played for my school, I was pretty good. But it was impossible to keep both sports really. So it would be another option for me.
[Ekaterina]: I think we need to develop in all aspects, not just dancing. To become a great dancer you need to develop a personality. So you need to have interests outside of dancing. When you are too narrow minded you don't see the whole picture of life.
[Igor]: But to become a good dancer you have to sacrifice many things. Sometimes you are tempted to go out, have fun with friends, but you have to understand you have to go to work and practise.
[Ekaterina]: It is obvious for us, we don't have to think about it, it is in our subconscious. There comes a Saturday night and we don't think let's go out.
[Igor]: It would be nice to have a studio where you can grow a next generation of dancers, help them develop.
[Ekaterina]: You have to have plans. If you set a target you can achieve it.
[Igor]: I enjoy teaching a lot. It helps your dancing to develop, to understand what works and what doesn't. Especially when you teach young kids you see dancing from the other side. In a way, you experiment with them to see what works and what doesn't (laughing)
[Igor]: Blackpool is the best. The atmosphere, the ball room, orchestra, all is a little like from a fairy tale! All the couples prepare specially for it and give their best.
[Igor]: I love all of it. I am enjoying Blackpool completely and fully.
[Ekaterina]: I had once a conversation with one of the dancers, no names (laughing), and asked him about Blackpool music. And he said, I like it but of course I would not listen to it in a car. We all laughed because all four of us, Igor, his girlfriend, her brother and me, we do listen to it sometimes in a car!
[Igor]: When you call me, sometimes you can hear me listening to, say, Blackpool Cha Chas or Sambas. I love listening to the Latin music.
[Ekaterina]: By Empress Orchestra.
[Igor]: I enjoy it. It brings good memories from Blackpool.
[Igor]: That music, in that ball room, that mix is great.
[Ekaterina]: It is the atmosphere. It is the whole thing.
[Igor]: Judging system a little bit. There should be some rules and limitations around who is judging and who is teaching who. Some separation would be good.
[Ekaterina]: So it doesn't get so personal...
[Igor]: It is very hard, but it would be good to bring more objectivity into it.
[Igor]: Yes, in such case it depends on what you like. But in many cases there needs to be more objectivity. If you teach somebody and you really like them, can you really objectively judge that couples' performance on that night?
[Ekaterina]: Even if you don't want that personal element you are affected and possibly influenced by the fact that you know them personally. We are all human in the end of the day.
[Igor]: Yes, definitely.
[Ekaterina]: We are planning to do the Rising Stars for the whole year. So you will see us in Rising Stars as well.
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Gimli Museum hosts scholar for the Fragile Heritage Project
Katelin Parsons, a research scholar from the University of Manitoba is collecting handwritten documentation in Icelandic for an online catalogue called the Fragile Heritage Project.
Parsons, who lives in Iceland, is at the New Iceland Heritage Museum on scholarship to translate and carefully curate each individual document.
Items include books with handmade bindings, letters, diaries, poems, records of weather events and lesser known, but popular romance sagas, each individually transcribed. Some are water damaged from the ocean voyage to Canada, some have pictures. One is stitched together with care.
"In Icelandic culture, I think it was really important to have books," noted Parsons.
Since the printing press wasn't invented until the 1800s, books were painstakingly copied by hand and circulated. Most were religious texts, "Written with the idea it be shared," said Parsons.
"People were very social," she added. "It was really hard to lose contact with your family when you came to another country."
Parsons describes the scene: Since it was really dark in Iceland in the winter, there was maybe one light. Everyone would get together in the sitting room," and read letters or tell stories. "Other families would tell how your relative was," she said.
There was no mass production of books and no central distribution system. "People would write (letters, poems and sagas) to read aloud. All are so special and really unique."
In fact, Parsons remarks that people worked in "scribal networks." One manuscript from 1834 is printed in Gothic script. Others date to the medieval era in the 1500s when Old Icelandic was in use.
After 1550, the language was updated with more contemporary spelling. After 1700, the spelling varies per writer and reflects phonetic pronunciation.
Since the sagas are 90% anonymous, the authors of most texts are unknown. However, "You really hear their voice and how they're expressing themselves," exclaimed Parsons. Parsons shares one fantastic saga with a very fitting lesson.
A huge, proud man doesn't want to learn the new language. His evil friend promises to translate for him, and then tries to steal his identity. No one understands the foreigner, but a princess figures out the evil friend is a fraud. She unites with the proud man who turns out to be a prince and the evil friend is exiled.
This lesson applies to immigrants today. Beware the language barrier and opportunists.


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Reston bound: Little Miss angles for state crown
LeiLani Steddum has her sights set on a national title. If the chips fall in her favor, she'll end up winning a free trip to Disneyland and maybe even land a coveted modeling contract.
That's one ambitious kindergartener.
"ABCs and 1-2-3s, that's what I want to teach when I grow up," she says in her opening monologue, but her goal of becoming a teacher doesn't take into account any of her current modeling aspirations. LeiLani is a finalist in the state National American Miss pageant and will be traveling to Reston this week to battle for the right to represent Virginia in the national competition.
"I'm going to wear a crown for my pageant," says the Charlottesville tot excitedly.
Indeed, that's precisely what got her hooked in the first place. LeiLani first became interested in competing when she saw a promotional mailing featuring pictures of the crown in the junk mail pile before her parents had a chance to throw it out. She promptly began begging her mother to help her enter.
LeiLani still has the fickle enthusiasm of any other five-year-old, though, so getting her to practice isn't always easy for those involved. "My mom makes me," she whispers, somehow hoping not to be overheard by the woman sitting two inches behind her.
Her mom has help, though, because it has totally become a family affair. LeiLani's grandmother picked out some of her outfits, and her dad and brother will both be supporting her as part of her entourage to Reston. "He's excited more than me," says LeiLani of her brother.
And her mother is more than just a practice coach. She's currently helping LeiLani organize a fundraiser, which came together late last week in the form of a lemonade stand on Banbury Street. Sales and donations will help pay for the trip to Reston, and her teachers at Greenbrier Elementary have already pledged to purchase a glass or two.
It's not all glamour for this little girl, though. She loves to read– as long as it isn't homework– and enjoys sports, particularly soccer. That sometimes sets her parents on edge as the August 26-30 pageant draws nearer.
"They won't let me ride my brother's two-wheeler because they're afraid I'll get bruises," LeiLani sighs. But their concern makes a bit more sense considering her idle playtime nearly lead to disaster several times.
"And I did try another hobby, and it's right there– ice skating," she says, gesturing towards the rink nearby.
"Once," she recalls, perhaps explaining her unusual enthusiasm for pageant competition, "I fell right on my head."
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The National Education Association is committed to ensuring that all students are learning and succeeding in school. NEA's Human and Civil Rights Department developed the 2006-2007 Focus On publications as a tool to help all groups get to know about each other's culture or group.
Here are the 2006-2007 Focus On publications on six cultural groups:
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We hike exactly 244 kilometres on this circular route through the Bergisches Land low mountain range to the east of Cologne. Our trusty guide on this hike is the signpost consisting of a black cross on a yellow background.
We don't just see mountains from the Bergisches Land – we are also surrounded by bodies of water. We ramble beside countless little streams and see the Agger and Wupper rivers up close. The Bergisches Land has the highest concentration of reservoirs in the whole of Germany, and the Bergisch Panorama Trail takes us past most of these. Some of these idyllic lakes have bathing areas, others are purely for drinking water. The drinking water reservoirs, particularly the Dhünntalsperre, have the wild charm of Canadian mountain lakes.
We pass stalactite caves and enjoy fantastic panoramic views across the Rhine Valley to Cologne. We visit the Bird and Monkey Park in Eckenhagen, and we stop off at historic pubs in the evenings and drink a beer brewed using locally sourced mineral water.
Manuel Andrack, editor, presenter, author and hiking blogger:
"Many pubs in the Bergisches Land mountain range serve Bergische Kaffeetafel. The coffee is poured from a traditional Dröppelminna coffee pot. It is accompanied by bread, honey, rice pudding and a waffle with cherries and cream."
At a glance: Bergisch Panorama Trail
Starts/ends: Engelskirchen
Length: 246 km
Number of stages: 12
Altitude variation: lowest point 131 m, highest point 500 m
Terrain: 37% unmade, 18% asphalt, 45% other, e.g. farm tracks
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Thanks for reading us, Lindsay!
The "Mean Girls" actress tried to call in sick to an LA court yesterday, citing a Post story as evidence that she and much of Gotham are stricken with the flu.
Lohan, facing charges of reckless driving and lying to cops, ultimately showed up at LA Superior Court and endured a comical tongue-lashing from a snarky Judge Stephanie Sautner. "Glad to see you're feeling better," the jurist quipped.
"Thank you," Lohan sheepishly said in reply.
Defense lawyer Mark Heller had earlier written to the court, explaining that Lohan was too ill to travel from New York to Tinseltown.
Heller, as his proof of Lohan's illness, included a photocopy of the Jan. 11 Post's front page, headlined: "FLU YORK CITY."
Heller told Sautner yesterday that Lohan — before her miraculous recovery — had been suffering from an "upper respiratory condition,"
Sautner clearly didn't buy it and snarked, "Is that like a cold?"
"Yes, in New York City it's the flu," Heller said.
Sautner, a former NYPD Special Victims Unit detective, called out the defense's half-baked excuse.
"I still have New Yorker in me; The flu is the flu," she said. "It's a whole different illness."
Lohan was required to show up yesterday to sign off on hiring Manhattan-based Heller as her new lawyer. The 26-year-old actress recently canned her longtime Southern California defense lawyer, Shawn Holley.
Lohan doesn't have to show up for her next pretrial hearing March 1, but she will have to attend her trial, set for March 18.
The misdemeanor charges, pending from her June 8 fender-bender on the Pacific Coast Highway, are the least of Lohan's worries.
Even if she's not convicted, she could still be found in violation of probation and sent to jail for up to 245 days. The probation is for walking out of a jewelry store with a $2,500 necklace she didn't pay for.
"She could have her trial on the misdemeanor and be acquitted, and the judge could still find her in violation of probation because the level of proof in a probation violation is much lower," Sautner told Lohan and her lawyers.
In court yesterday, Lohan looked as run down as the Porsche she allegedly totaled this past summer.
She wore a dark-colored dress, just over the knee, and black and white Louboutin stiletto heels.
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Canon PowerShot A2100 IS First Thoughts
Since the introduction of the pioneering little A20 almost ten years ago, Canon's "A" series digital cameras have earned a high degree of popularity and loyalty from consumers – based on their excellent image quality, dependable performance, durability, and amazing ease of use. Last year's A2000 IS was something of a departure – Canon's new "A" series flagship was clearly targeted at casual photographers rather than the budget constrained photo enthusiasts who bought earlier "A" series digicams.
The new PowerShot A2100 IS, which replaces the A2000 IS, is an evolutionary/cosmetic update – so it basically retains all the best features of its predecessor while adding a couple of useful refinements/improvements.
The A2100 IS features Canon's fourth generation DIGIC IV processor coupled to a 1/2.3-inch 12.1 megapixel (the A2000 IS was a 10 megapixel digicam) CCD image sensor. There's also a 30 fps VGA (640×480) movie mode, image stabilization, and a new Smart Auto (exposure) mode.
Earlier "A" series models were very popular with photo enthusiasts and more serious shooters because they provided a useful range of manual exposure options (Aperture Priority mode, Shutter Priority mode, and a full Manual exposure mode), but the A2100 IS utilizes the same very basic auto exposure only system as the A2000 IS. The A2100 IS also features a 3.0 inch LCD, but like many current point-and-shoots, eschews the optical viewfinder – earlier "A" series digicams featured optical viewfinders.
Earlier "A" series flagship models endeared themselves to photo enthusiasts, and a friend who sells digital cameras used to tout them as the Junior Gee – a stripped down version of Canon's preeminent point-and-shoots. He can't say that anymore, but he can (and does) point out that the newer "A" series flagship models are substantially smaller, thinner, and lighter than earlier "A" series digicams – easily pocketable, which the earlier "A" models definitely were not.
Ergonomics and design
The PowerShot A2100 IS is small enough to drop in a shirt pocket and tough enough to go just about anywhere, plus it features a very good 6x optical zoom (equivalent to 36mm to 216mm) – most ultra-compact digicams provide only a 3x or 4x zoom – giving A2100 IS users a nice bonus.
The A2100 IS makes an almost ideal first digital camera and it is an excellent choice for a family camera. It is also a very good option for travelers who want a tough, lightweight, "go anywhere" digicam that runs on universally available AA batteries. I carried the A2100 IS with me (pretty much everywhere I went) for two weeks and I was consistently impressed – just like I was with the A2000 IS and every other "A" series Canon digicam I've used to date.
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To be continued…
We've got more on the way in our full review of the Canon PowerShot A2100.


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You get to choose your friends, but not your family. This is a funny and wise human story about family that is very readable, and, you get to learn a little about tractors along the way! There are all kinds of collisions in this novel, none involving farm vehicles. There is culture clash, a generation gap, and sibling rivalry. There is the poignancy of caring for the elderly and how (understandably) fiercely the aged resist giving up their independence.
Two feuding sisters, Vera and Nadia, must band together when their elderly father decides to marry a young Ukrainian immigrant less that half his age. Is he being used by this buxom young lady to achieve immigration status, or is this more than a marriage of convenience? The sisters are bound and determined to figure it out, even if it means working together.
Underneath the hilarity of the main story, there does lie a sobering undercurrent of how what a family has suffered or endured in the past, does affect who they are today. The history we get from our family stories is a rich heritage we would do well to pay close attention to.
A couple of noteworthy things I learned about the author which will make sense if you read the book – she was born in a Ukrainian refugee camp in Germany, and she has written several non-fiction books about caring for the elderly.


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Brad Pitt is for New Orleans. He and Maddox cheered New Orleans into the Super Bowl, this weekend he and Maddox cheered New Orleans to the Lombardi trophy. And Mom came along too. But ... for added dramatic effect... Angelina arrived a day later, on Sunday, and the three watched the game from a private box, in full view, and gave us a taste of Pitt Porn just in time for the New Year. Which also happens to be Valentine's Day.
Chinese New Year is on the 14th. Get loved up and Chinese next Sunday.
As you can see, there was a LOT of affection last night. They held each other, they grabbed thighs and hands, and there was full on kissing. Yeah. Pitt Porn is so f-cking good. Look at that. Get off on that.
If you're a Brangelunatic you'll say that their love is forever and unshakable. Anti-Brange will say that they're faking it to save their brand. The tabloids will keep trying, week after week, blindly grasping at faux smut, and Ian Halperin will keep predicting the Brange demise as he continues to pimp his book while perhaps planning the sequel. As I have already noted several times, the Brange is not perfect, but the Brange is fine right now, the Brange will not last forever, but they will last long enough to make this episode, and those who believed it, look a little foolish. They are nothing if not competitive. And, frankly, these two bitches make a point of doing the opposite of what everyone else wants.
Shall we go into the Brange mailbox for a little hate? Let's sample both sides. These came in last week.
What the f-ck did I have to open my internet to read you saying Brad and Angelina won't last forever. What the f-ck do you know you dirtbag whore! This beautiful family withstands everything. They are a rock for their children and a lighthouse of hope for humanity with their charity and works. STOP TRYING TO TEAR THEM DOWN! Brad is with the one of his entire life, his true star and his goddess. The Jolie-Pitts forever! From Jackie
Why don't you stop licking Angelina HOlie's c-nt and get it right for change? She's a diseased whore, she spread her diseased all over his zit face and he aint nevah gonna look as hot as he did when he was with Jen! So keep worshipping the Brangelina and you will get eaten up by her Holie c-nt too. But I saw your picture you need a haircut so maybe you'll like it, you sick twisted beeasstch. These two will end up dead in the gutter with needles in their arms. Way to worship the devil you chink bitch. From Joyce in Cleveland
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Explosive growth in screen numbers is driving up box-office revenues in China, but such rapid expansion could present risks for some exhibitors. Liz Shackleton reports
From the outside looking in, Chinese exhibition appears to be one of the sweetest spots to be operating anywhere in the world today.
China's box office grew by 30% to hit $2.7bn in2012 and won't be slowing down any time soon. The number of screens increased by around 3,800 last year — reaching a total of more than 13,000 — an average of more than 10 new screens a day. The dynamic growth is driven by well-heeled cinema investment companies racing to meet demand from an increasingly wealthy population with time on its hands to watch movies. Or so the story goes.
'Cultivating virgin territory has been the secret of our strategy'
Fang Bin, Dadi Cinemas
But while this is true to some extent, the spoils are not being shared evenly in the Chinese exhibition industry and it is a tough business even for those with substantial resources. Competition has become fierce as cinema operators have prioritised expansion over profitability in the race to grab market share. And as the number of screens has exploded, per-screen revenues and admissions, especially in the first-tier cities, have started to decline.
The market is also reaching saturation point in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, while costs for construction, rent, labour and marketing are rising rapidly.
"We believe there are probably too many cinema operators in China to sustain over a long-term basis," says Rance Pow of Shanghai-based consultancy firm Artisan Gateway. "The growth rate of new cinemas will slow as the focus shifts to riskier second and third-tier markets. Failures will increase as the market reaches saturation point and increased competition will expose the weakness of some operators."
By the end of 2012, China had 3,680 theatres with 13,118 screens, of which 93% are digital and 72% are 3D-enabled. All urban cinemas are required to join one of 40 government-approved chains, which arrange film bookings and take a 1%-6% fee from box-office revenues. A few private companies, such as Wanda and Dadi Cinemas, have been allowed to establish their own chains. Although foreign players are restricted to a 49% market share in cinemas, Korean exhibitors such as CJ CGV, Lotte and Megabox have made some headway in rolling out new cinemas in the market.
According to local market research firm Ent Group, the five biggest chains take more than 70% of box-office revenue, leaving 35 chains to scrabble for the remaining 30%. The intense competition, especially in big cities, has resulted in ticket price wars and group sale discounts, which drive down profitability. Taking into account these pressures and rising operating costs, many exhibitors say they now regard their big-city theatres as a branding exercise, while they look to second and third-tier markets to turn a profit.
Moving into smaller cities where costs are lower and audiences have never before experienced a multiplex seems like a no-brainer. "We opened an eight-screen multiplex in Xining in the west of China that became profitable in the second month," says Crystal Wang, director of strategic planning at Orange Sky Golden Harvest [pictured].
'We target highend customers with superb services'
Jimmy Wu, Lumiere Pavilions
Some exhibitors, such as Dadi Cinemas, even started out by focusing on smaller markets, although they later moved into the big cities. "Cultivating virgin territory has been the secret of our strategy, although we've also opened cinemas in Shanghai and Beijing," says Dadi Cinemas general manager Fang Bin. "We have been successful in identifying the right sites and attracting audiences that didn't previously have a convenient venue to watch films."
However, cinema operators are also taking a risk in these smaller markets. Ticket prices need to be relatively high to cover start-up costs, but local audiences are used to consuming films cheaply and illegally online. "There is a risk because you're introducing a social habit to audiences for the first time," says Pow. "The interest in the content is proven but it becomes a value proposition. Do I spend $5.60 (rmb35) on a ticket or continue to consume movies the way I've been accustomed to?"
In other words, you have to cultivate the audience in second and third-tier markets, and that takes time. Feeling the pressure to stake out territory and grab market share, cinema operators are pushing into riskier and more remote markets, even though they will not be making money in all of them for some time. And even if you are the first cinema in town, you will not be alone for long.
With such fierce competition, it becomes more important to differentiate your services, and while most new cinemas are excellent technically, they lack experience in customer service and marketing.
Lumiere Pavilions has taken a different course, rolling out slowly and focusing on customer relationship management (CRM). "In addition to state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment, we use sophisticated CRM systems and target high-end customers with superb services," says Lumiere chairman and CEO Jimmy Wu. The company has a direct relationship with some of its most loyal customers to ensure they can book their favourite seats.
However, the best technology and service in the world does not mean a thing if you don't have good movies to show, and despite the expansion of China's import quota to 34 revenue-sharing films a year, patchy product flow has become Chinese cinema operators' biggest headache. It is not that China cannot produce huge hits. Over the past year, four films — Lost In Thailand, CZ12, Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons and Painted Skin: The Resurrection — have grossed more than $100m. But these blockbusters are clustered around summer or the Chinese New Year holiday period and leave long dry spells in between.
"Quantity is no problem — last year China was the world's third biggest producer with more than 700 movies, but each year there are only a small number of hits," says Wanda Cinema Line general manager Ye Ning.
"Feng Xiaogang only makes one film a year, and there's only one sleeper hit like Lost In Thailand, so it's not enough. We need great content every week — at least two blockbuster titles every month. But there are only a few film-makers who know the rules of the game."
'Failures will increase as the market reaches saturation point'
Rance Pow, Artisan Gateway
Some cinema operators have started to experiment with alternative content, including 3D sports, concerts and operas, but government censors such as the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) have not formulated clear policy for screening this kind of product. Lumiere Pavilions screened some games from the 2010 FIFA World Cup and 3D operas Carmen and Madam Butterfly, co-produced by RealD and London's Royal Opera House. But Chinese cinema operators are not allowed to sell tickets for such screenings, so the audience attended for free and the costs were offset by commercial sponsors.
Lumiere is now working hard to lobby SARFT to allow alternative content to be shown in cinemas. But in the short-term, the authorities' focus is likely to be on developing the local fi lm industry, rather than encouraging different kinds of competing product.
The good news is that Chinese films are improving and becoming more market-oriented. Recent developments such as Beijing Galloping Horse's acquisition of Digital Domain should also lead to improved production values. The big issue is one of timing: how long can existing cinema operators wait for a steady product supply and for consumers to change their habits and become regular cinemagoers?
Only the most efficient, service-oriented or deep-pocketed players will be able to sit out these tumultuous early stages of China's film industry development. And with competition and costs increasing, the currently fragmented exhibition sector is likely to go through a period of consolidation over the next few years. Already big players such as Wanda, which has the advantage of owning most of the real estate that houses its cinemas, are starting to eye acquisition targets.
In the meantime, it will be diffi cult for new players to find a foothold in the market, even though there is undoubtedly room for many more screens. "We believe it may be too late for new entrants," says Pow. "We are looking at the tailend of multiplex development and anyone coming in now is late to the game."


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The burning of fossil fuels to generate energy produces carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas which, everything else being equal, could lead to some warming of the global climate. Most scientists believe the Earth experienced a small rise in temperatures during the second half of the twentieth century, but they are unsure how large a role human activities may have played.
The important questions from a public policy perspective are: How much of the warming is natural? How sure are we that it will continue? Would continued warming be beneficial or harmful?
The answers, in brief, are: Probably two-thirds of the warming in the 1990s was due to natural causes; the warming trend already has stopped and forecasts of future warming are unreliable; and the benefits of a moderate warming are likely to outweigh the costs.
Global warming, in other words, is not a crisis.
Why Does Heartland Address Global Warming?
The Heartland Institute has been studying global warming since 1994, when it produced Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism (Madison Books). Heartland is a national nonprofit research and education organization that focuses on economics, not science. So why have we become, in the words of the science journal Nature, "a major force among climate sceptics"? (Tollefson, 2011)
We were made curious by the fact that every single environmental group in the U.S. says global warming is "real" and a "crisis," even though there was in 1994, and still is today, considerable debate going on in the scientific community. Many of the world's most distinguished scientists believe climate processes are too poorly understood to support calls for immediate action or predictions of catastrophic global warming (Solomon, 2008).
The reason for the consensus among environmentalists is simple: If AGW is true, then stopping or preventing it requires higher taxes, more income redistribution, more wilderness preservation, more regulations on corporations, "smart growth," subsidies for renewable energy, and on and on. In other words, many of the policies already on the liberal political agenda. Liberals have no reason to "look under the hood" of the global warming scare, to see what the real science says. They believe in global warming because they feel it justifies their ideological convictions (Hulme, 2009).
Independents, conservatives, and libertarians – about 80 percent of the general population, according to surveys, but less than 20 percent of journalists and academics – don't want to go down the road to higher taxes and more regulations unless it is necessary. They open the hood of the global warming scare and look at the real science. They study the issue and come to understand it. Based on that understanding – not ideological conviction or belief – they conclude global warming is not a crisis.
The Heartland Institute "looked under the hood" and concluded concern over the possibility of catastrophic global warming was being manufactured to advance a political agenda. We then took upon ourselves the task of publicizing the scientific uncertainty behind the global warming scare and documenting the high costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions – economic costs as well as the loss of freedom.
And now you know why an economic think tank is so prominent in a scientific debate. We do not do this to raise money from oil companies or others with a stake in the issue – oil companies never contributed more than 5 percent of our annual budgets, and they give a trivial amount today. We challenge claims that climate change is a crisis because our pursuit of the truth led us to this position.
Isn't There a Consensus?
Science doesn't advance by "consensus." A single scientist or study can disprove a theory that is embraced by the vast majority of scientists. The search for a consensus is actually part of what philosophers call "post-normal science," which isn't really science at all. Still, many people ask: What do scientists believe?
Most surveys cited by those who claim there is a consensus ask questions that are too vague to settle the matter. It is important to distinguish between the statement that global warming is a crisis and the similar-sounding but very different statements that the climate is changing and that there is a human impact on climate. Climate is always changing, and every scientist knows this. Our emissions and alterations of the landscape are surely having impacts on climate, though they are often local or regional (like heat islands) and small relative to natural variation.
It is easy to find evidence that scientists disagree about climate change. Climate Change Reconsidered cites thousands of articles appearing in peer-reviewed journals that challenge the basic underlying assumptions of AGW (Idso and Singer, 2009). More than 30,000 scientists have signed a petition saying there is no threat that man-made global warming will pose a threat to humanity or nature (Petition Project).
Alarmists often cite an essay by Naomi Oreskes claiming to show that virtually all articles about global warming in peer-reviewed journals support the so-called consensus. But a no-less-rigorous study by Benny Peiser that attempted to replicate her results searched the abstracts of 1,117 scientific journal articles on "global climate change" and found only 13 (1 percent) explicitly endorse the "consensus view" while 34 reject or cast doubt on the view that human activity has been the main driver of warming over the past 50 years. A more recent search by Klaus-Martin Schulte of 928 scientific papers published from 2004 to February 2007 found fewer than half explicitly or implicitly endorse the so-called consensus and only 7 percent do so explicitly (Schulte, 2008).
A survey that is frequently cited as showing consensus actually proves just the opposite. German scientists Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch have surveyed climate scientists three times, in 1996, 2003, and 2007 (Bray and von Storch, 2010). Their latest survey found most of these scientists say they believe global warming is man-made and is a serious problem, but most of these same scientists do not believe climate science is sufficiently advanced to predict future climate conditions. For two-thirds of the science questions asked, scientific opinion is deeply divided, and in half of those cases, most scientists disagree with positions that are at the foundation of the alarmist case (Bast, 2011).
On August 2, 2011, von Storch posted the following comment on a blog: "From our own observations of discussions among climate scientists we also find hardly consensus [sic] on many other issues, ranging from changing hurricane statistics to the speed of melting Greenland and Antarctica, spreading of diseases and causing mass migration and wars" (von Storch, 2011).
These are not minor issues. Extreme weather events, melting ice, and the spread of disease are all major talking points for Al Gore and other alarmists in the climate debate. If there is no consensus on these matters, then "skeptics" are right to ask why we should believe global warming is a crisis.
Cognitive Dissonance?
How can scientists say they believe global warming is a problem, but at the same time not believe there is sufficient scientific evidence to predict future climate conditions? Either this is hollow careerism and ought to be subject to public criticism, or it is cognitive dissonance – holding two contradictory ideas in your mind at the same time. If the latter, it is probably caused by the complexity of the issue (we must trust the judgment of scientists working in other fields to form opinions on subjects we are not ourselves expert about) and its close association with social and economic agendas (we want to believe something is true even if our own research suggests it is not).
This is not an unreasonable claim or an attack on the integrity of working scientists. It is a standard theme in many books on the history of science, dating back at least as far as Charles Mackay's 1841 classic, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, and as recently as Mike Hulme's 2009 tome, Why We Disagree About Climate Change. Hulme, not incidentally, is no skeptic: He contributes to the alarmist IPCC reports and works at the University of East Anglia (home of the Climategate scandal). Even he admits that his position is based on belief rather than scientific understanding and is inseparable from his partisan political beliefs.
Bray and von Storch, in an essay in 1999 reporting on the results of their first survey, remarked on how a willingness to make predictions and recommendations about public policy that aren't supported by actual science is a sign of "post-normal science," or the willingness to rely on "consensus" rather than actual scientific knowledge when the risks are perceived as being great (Bray and von Storch, 1999). Scientists who express beliefs about global warming that they can't support with real science are sharing opinions shaped by ideology and trust. Their beliefs should be given no more weight than the beliefs of nonscientists.
Natural or Man-Made?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an agency of the United Nations, claims the warming that has occurred since the mid-twentieth century "is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations" (IPCC, 2007). Many climate scientists disagree with the IPCC on this key issue. As Idso and Singer wrote in 2009,
The IPCC does not apply generally accepted methodologies to determine what fraction of current warming is natural, or how much is caused by the rise in greenhouse gases (GHG). A comparison of "fingerprints" from best available observations with the results of state-of-the-art GHG models leads to the conclusion that the (human-caused) GHG contribution is minor. This fingerprint evidence, though available, was ignored by the IPCC.
The IPCC continues to undervalue the overwhelming evidence that, on decadal and century-long time scales, the Sun and associated atmospheric cloud effects are responsible for much of past climate change. It is therefore highly likely that the Sun is also a major cause of twentieth-century warming, with anthropogenic GHG making only a minor contribution. In addition, the IPCC ignores, or addresses imperfectly, other science issues that call for discussion and explanation (Idso and Singer, 2009).
Scientists who study the issue say it is impossible to tell if the recent small warming trend is natural, a continuation of the planet's recovery from the more recent "Little Ice Age," or unnatural, the result of human greenhouse gas emissions. Thousands of peer-reviewed articles point to natural sources of climate variability that could explain some or even all of the warming in the second half of the twentieth century (Idso and Singer, 2009). S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery documented natural climate cycles of approximately 1,500 years going back hundreds of thousands of years (Singer and Avery, second edition 2008).
It is clear from climate records that the Earth was warmer than it is now in recorded human history, before man-made greenhouse gas emissions could have been the cause. We know enough about how the Earth's climate works to know that biological and physical processes remove CO2 from the atmosphere at a faster rate when concentration levels are higher and release more heat into space when temperatures rise. These feedback factors and radiative forcings are poorly modeled or missing from the computer models that alarmists use to make their forecasts.
The arguments are complex, but the debate over natural versus man-made climate change is unquestionably still ongoing. The more we learn, the less likely it becomes that human greenhouse gas emissions can explain more than a small amount of the climate change we witness.
How Much Warming?
NASA satellite data recorded since 1979 allow us to check the accuracy of claims that the past three decades have been warming at an alarming rate. The data show a warming rate of 0.123 degrees C per decade. This is considerably less than what land-based temperature stations report during the same time period, and which are relied on by the IPCC (Christy, 2009). If the Earth's temperature continues to rise at the rate of the past three decades, the planet would see only 1.23 degrees C warming over the course of an entire century.
Most climate scientists, even "skeptics," acknowledge that rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere would, all other things held constant, cause some small amount of warming. Alarmists claim that small amount will trigger increases in the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, which in turn will cause further warming. But other scientists have found no evidence of rising levels of moisture in those areas of the atmosphere where the models claim it should be found. Without this "amplification," there is no global warming crisis (Singer, 2011).
While the global climate warmed slightly during the 1980s and 1990s, it has not warmed at all since 2000, and there is some evidence that a cooling trend has begun (Taylor, 2007). This contradicts the predictions of the IPCC and poses a challenge to the theory that CO2 concentrations play a major role in global temperature trends. It confirms the views of many less-politicized climate scientists who acknowledge that the global climate is always warming or cooling (Michaels, 2005; Christy, 2006).
The scientific community's lack of certainty about future climate trends is rooted in the shortcomings of computer models. These models are the centerpiece of the IPCC''s reports, yet it is widely recognized that they fail to account for changes in precipitation, water vapor, and clouds that are likely to occur in a warmer world. It is a case of "garbage in, garbage out."
If we cannot predict how much warming will occur, how can we claim that continued human emissions of greenhouse gases is harmful?
Global Warming Benefits as Well as Harms
Alarmists claim global warming will cause massive flooding, more violent weather, famines, and other catastrophic consequences. If these claims are true, then we should have seen evidence of this trend during the twentieth century. Idso and Singer (2009) provide extensive evidence that no such trends have been observed. Even von Storch (2011) admits there is no consensus on these matters.
The preponderance of scientific data suggest sea levels are unlikely to rise by more than several inches, weather may actually become more mild, and since most warming occurs at night and during the winter season, it has little adverse effect (and some positive effect) on plants and wildlife. Hurricanes are likely to diminish, not increase, in frequency or severity (Spencer, 2008; Singer and Avery, 2008).
Higher levels of CO2 have a well-documented fertilizing effect on plants and make them more drought-resistant. Warmer temperatures are also likely to be accompanied by higher soil moisture levels and more frequent rain, leading to a "greening of the Earth" that is dramatically different from the "parched Earth" scenario featured in many biased and agenda-driven documentary films (Idso, 1995).
The current best estimate is that, if left unaddressed, by 2060 global warming is likely to have a small (0.2 percent of GDP) positive effect on the U.S. economy and a small (1 to 2 percent of GDP) negative effect on the global economy (Mendelsohn and Neumann, 1999). These estimates are very small and speculative.
Reducing Emissions is Expensive
While the likelihood that global warming would be a crisis was never large and is getting even smaller as new research is reported, we know the cost of reducing man-made greenhouse gas emissions would be high.
An analysis of a carbon "cap-and-trade" proposal considered by the U.S. Senate in 2008 – the Lieberman-Warner Act – found it would destroy between 1.2 and 1.8 million jobs in 2020 and between 3 and 4 million jobs in 2030; impose a financial cost on U.S. households of $739 to $2,927 per year by 2020, rising to $4,022 to $6,752 by 2030; and would increase the price of gasoline between 60 percent and 144 percent by 2030 and the price of electricity by 77 percent to 129 percent (National Association of Manufacturers/ACCF, 2008).
States that try to reduce emissions on their own are likely to incur costs 10 times greater than a national program because businesses and residents would find it easier to move to nearby states with lower energy costs or less-burdensome regulations and because states would have to rely on more costly command-and control regulatory approaches (Bast, Taylor, and Lehr, 2003).
The record of existing emissions trading programs gives little basis for supposing a massively bigger regime would work. The sulfur dioxide trading program, often pointed to as a model, succeeded only because railroad deregulation made low-cost, low-sulfur coal available from the Powder River Basin (Johnston, 1998).
European emissions trading programs have been characterized by low trading volumes, high price volatility, and mostly paper transactions that do not result in actual reductions in emissions. Most European countries are far behind schedule in meeting their emission reduction goals under the Kyoto Protocol.
Recommended Policies
So what should be done about global warming? Actually, a lot is being done: The federal government of the U.S. is spending billions of dollars every year on research. State and federal governments are massively subsidizing ethanol producers and wind and solar power generators in the name of "reducing carbon emissions." Billions of dollars more are being spent by businesses and consumers complying with regulations that are said to be justified by concern over global warming.
In light of the compelling scientific evidence that global warming is not a crisis, policymakers should consider reducing current spending on climate change and repealing regulations and mandates that were previously justified by fear of global warming. More specifically, they should consider the following policies:
- Oppose higher energy taxes or carbon ""cap-and-trade"" programs.
- Repeal renewable energy mandates that require utilities and their customers to buy high-priced electricity from solar and wind companies.
- Support research independent from government research programs that are biased toward alarmism.
- Remove barriers to energy conservation embedded in state and local laws and regulations, such as restrictive building codes and zoning ordinances.
- Support research and, if appropriate, capital investments in adapting to climate change rather than trying to prevent it.
- Pursue win-win strategies that produce enough benefits to pay their way apart from their possible effect on climate
- Oppose planned increases in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that would reduce car and truck emissions by small amounts while dramatically increasing prices and reducing consumer choices and safety.
Bast, Joseph, 2010. "Analysis: New International Survey of Climate Scientists," The Heartland Institute, September 25, heartland.org/policy-documents/analysis-new-international-survey-climate-scientists.
Bast, Joseph, and James Taylor, and Jay Lehr, 2003. "State Greenhouse Gas Programs: An Economic and Scientific Analysis," Heartland Policy Study No. 101, The Heartland Institute, February.
Bray, Dennis, and von Storch, Hans, 2010. "A Survey of the Perspectives of Climate Scientists Concerning Climate Science and Climate Change, GKSS Report 2010/9."
Bray, Dennis and von Storch, Hans, 1999. "Climate Science: An Empirical Example of Postnormal Science," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 80, No. 3, March.
Christy, John R., 2006. "Questions surrounding the 'hockey stick' temperature studies: implications for climate change assessments." Testimony, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, July 27.
Christy, John R., 2009. Written testimony to House Ways and Means Committee, February 25.
Hulme, Mike, 2010. Why We Disagree About Climate Change. Cambridge University Press.
Idso, Craig and S. Fred Singer, 2009. Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. The Heartland Institute.
Idso, Sherwood B., 1995. CO2 and the Biosphere: The Incredible Legacy of the Industrial Revolution. Department of Soil, Water and Climate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.
IPCC, 2007. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press.
Johnston, Jim, 1998. "Emission trading for global warming," Regulation, Vol. 21 No. 4.
Mendelsohn, Robert and James E. Neumann, 1999. Eds., The Impact of Climate Change on the United states Economy, Cambridge University Press.
Michaels, Patrick, 2005. Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming. Rowman & Littlefield.
National Association of Manufacturers/ACCF, 2008. "Study of the Economic Impact from the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act."
Petition Project, Web site, www.petitionproject.org.
Schulte, Klaus-Martin, 2008. "Scientific Consensus on Global Warming?" Environment & Energy, Vol. 19, #2.
Singer, S. Fred, 2011. "Lack of Consistency Between Modeled and Observed Temperature Trends," Energy & Environment, Vol. 22, No. 4.
Singer, S. Fred and Dennis T. Avery, 2008. Unstoppable Global Warming … Every 1,500 Years. Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, second rev. edition.
Solomon, Lawrence, 2008. The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud* *And those who are too fearful to do so. Richard Vigilante Books.
Spencer, Roy W., 2008. Climate Confusion. Encounter Books.
Taylor, James, 2007. "Little Ice Age May Return Soon, Russian Scientists Say," Environment & Climate News, February.
Tollefson, Jeff, 2011. "The Sceptic Meets His Match," Nature, Vol. 475, July 28, pp. 440-445.
von Storch, Hans, 2011. "RE: 'The Sceptic Meets His match,'" blog, August 2, 2011, http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.com/2011/08/bray-and-von-storch-on-tollefsons-piece.html#more.
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- Alternate Solutions Institute
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- Cathay Institute for Public Affairs
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- Center for the Dissemination of Economic Knowledge (CEDICE)
- Centro de Innovación y Desarrollo Humano
- Centro de Investigaciones de Instituciones y Mercados de Argentina (CIIMA-ESEADE)
- Citizens Alliance for Responsible Energy
- Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
- Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Congress of Racial Equality
- Discovery Institute
- Doctors for Disaster Preparedness
- Dr. Tim Ball: A Different Perspective
- European Center for Economic Growth
- Free Market Foundation
- Fundacion Atlas 1853
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In 2003, the US Congress passed a law that requires organisations receiving funding through the president's emergency plan for Aids relief (Pepfar) to adopt policies "opposing prostitution". Global health advocates have long argued that what's known as the "anti-prostitution pledge" amounts to government-compelled speech (ie it inhibits free speech), and impedes HIV and Aids intervention programmes involving sex workers, a community whose stigmatisation increases their vulnerability to the virus.
On Monday, the supreme court will decide the fate of the anti-prostitution pledge. The court should overturn this ideologically driven policy, which is rooted in misguided moralism over sex work and not in effective HIV and Aids intervention.
The anti-prostitution pledge is reminiscent of the now defunct Mexico City policy, or "global gag rule", a similarly politicised US policy that ignored health needs by forbidding grant recipients from engaging in family planning that was construed as "promoting abortion".
Although both the global gag rule and the anti-prostitution pledge restrict US health aid on political grounds, which disrupts the provision of essential services, the administration of President Barack Obama has taken contradictory positions on these policies. In 2009, Obama issued an executive order reversing the rule, but on Monday his administration will defend the anti-prostitution pledge before the supreme court.
Ideologically inspired rules and restrictions should not trump tried and tested public health practices. In the fight against HIV and Aids, public health organisations should take a non-judgmental approach to sex work and reject stigmatisation of sex workers. In an amicus brief filed with the supreme court by the joint UN programme on HIV and Aids (UNAids), the expert body uses this rationale to argue against the anti-prostitution pledge, pointing to studies in countries as epidemiologically varied as Brazil, Kenya, Thailand and Ukraine to demonstrate that HIV programmes supporting empowerment of sex workers reduce HIV infection rates.
Through my human rights research and advocacy, I have observed the positive impact of global programmes rooted in the destigmatised community-empowerment framework that UNAids highlights. Organisations cannot work in solidarity with sex workers and ensure these communities are the beating heart of designing and implementing HIV and Aids programmes if they are forced to adopt a policy that assumes all sex workers seek rescue and not tools and knowledge to safeguard their health.
Since the passage of the anti-prostitution pledge, organisations serving sex workers in countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Mali, Thailand and Uganda have echoed these sentiments. Many have had to forgo US funding and close their sex worker drop-in centres. The lack of clarity in Pepfar restrictions has resulted in former partners shunning these organisations from fear of losing US aid.
Influential organisations have continued to raise their voices against the anti-prostitution pledge. Groups including Partners in Health, Amfar, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, Elton John Aids Foundation, Planned Parenthood and Physicians for Human Rights submitted an amicus brief to the supreme court decrying the pledge and arguing that best practice is developed when "the marketplace of ideas in public health operates without ideological restrictions".
Despite the chorus of voices from the public health community, the Obama administration has continued to defend the pledge in federal courts, a perplexing move that contrasts starkly with the administration's clear-sighted rejection of the global gag rule. When Obama repealed the rule in one of his first acts as president, he argued that public health must supersede politicisation of issues. But his administration has not extended this reasoning to the anti-prostitution pledge.
Since Pepfar was introduced, the US has been the world's largest government donor of HIV and Aids funds. This outsized influence means that US aid not based on sound public health policy can have debilitating effects. Although the supreme court case will hinge on the pledge's free speech implications, the court should also overturn it because ideologically engineered policies must not usurp sound health measures in the struggle against HIV and Aids.
• Chi Mgbako will be at the oral arguments at the supreme court and tweeting about the case. Follow @chiadanna for updates


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Dave Wannstedt (born May 21, 1952 in Baldwin, Pennsylvania) is current Assistant Heach Coach/Inside Linebackers Coach for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League. He was most recently head coach of the University of Pittsburgh football team, a position he held for six seasons. Wannstedt is also the former head coach of the Miami Dolphins and Chicago Bears of the NFL. He also was a long-time assistant to Jimmy Johnson with the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Hurricanes, and Oklahoma State Cowboys as well as an associate of Johnson when both were assistants at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1970s.
Wannstedt was born in Baldwin, Pennsylvania and attended Baldwin High School. He earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh playing offensive tackle and blocking for future Heisman Trophy winner Tony Dorsett. After a successful career with the Panthers, he was chosen in the 1974 NFL draft by the Green Bay Packers, but spent his only NFL season on the injured reserve list with a neck injury.
In 1975, Pitt coach Johnny Majors hired him as a graduate assistant coach. He was on the staff when the Panthers won the 1976 NCAA Division I-A national football championship with a victory over the Georgia Bulldogs in the 1977 Sugar Bowl. In 1977, Jimmy Johnson joined the staff of the Pitt Panthers and the two would forge a long lasting personal and professional bond. When Johnson left to become the head coach of the Oklahoma State Cowboys in 1979, he invited Wannstedt to join his staff.


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Berry season is coming up (or it may already be with you). In any case, berry sorbets are so refreshing and so easy to make. This not only serves as a refreshing snack or dessert, but is great for whipping up strawberry smoothies.
For the smoothie, I use a blender and I usually add about 1 cup of the sorbet, one cup of fruit juice (lemonade works well too), some crushed ice, and then blend. You can easily double or triple this recipe for more of the same.
I leave the seeds in when I use strawberries, which is partly why this is so easy to make. Click here to see how I remove the seeds from berries for sorbets and sherbets.
All Natural Strawberry Sorbet
- 3 containers organic strawberries (about 3 pounds, or 1362 grams)
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup honey
- 1 tablespoon rum (to keep it from freezing like a rock)
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- Combine the honey and water in a saucepan and simmer for 5 to 10 minutes to create a sweet syrup. Cool the syrup.
- Wash and trim the leaves and stem off of the strawberries.
- Place the strawberries in a blender or food processor, and blend until the strawberries are pureed.
- Combine the pureed strawberries, lemon juice, rum, and the syrup, and blend well.
- Cool in the refrigerator for an hour.
- Add the mixture to an ice cream maker to make the sorbet.
- It will be somewhat soft, but completely delicious, or you can place it in the freezer for storage and pull out at a moment's notice – almost. I usually need to let the frozen sorbet defrost for 5 minutes before I scoop it out.
Makes 6 to 8 cups


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Joining in on Cool Hunting's takeover of the Standard Hotel, East Village, we have transformed and tuned the Sonos Listening Library as part of the annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) and Noho Design Week. The intersection between the interior of the room and the sound you explore as you move through the space challenges the way we think about design and technology together—creating an acoustically and aesthetically friendly environment to listen to music. Similar to the newly created Sonos Studio, a listening-focused gallery in the heart of Los Angeles, the Listening Library's debut at New York's design week includes modifications according to acoustic principles such as reflection, absorption, and diffusion to create an acoustically refined environment for listening.
In the center of the room hangs the Sonos Soundalier. Created by Kiel Mead and Lindsey Adelman, the piece utilizes Adelman's iconic iron chandeliers with Play:3 wireless speakers in the place of lights. The sound creates an unparalleled, 360-degree music listening experience.
Come check out the Sonos Listening Library and all that design and music has to offer during out panel discussion Friday at 5:00 PM (EST) on the first floor of the Standard Hotel, East Village. Moderated by Dwell and Architizer, the panel will explore the connection between interior, furniture design, and acoustics. The Sonos team will discuss the concept, design, and build of the newly completed Sonos Studio.


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Police: 3 women arrested at illegal Patchogue massage parlor
Three women were arrested in Patchogue Thursday and charged with illegal activities at an illegitimate massage parlor, Suffolk police said.
Ashley Jimenez, 26, of Ridge, and Dawn Collins, 23, of Central Islip, were both charged with unlicensed practice of the massage therapist profession, and with prostitution. Justine Rittman, 26, of St. James, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Fifth Precinct officers conducted an undercover investigation at the massage parlor, in a second-floor apartment at 305A West Roe Blvd., in Patchogue, and made the arrests shortly after 4 p.m., police said.
The three women were to be arraigned Friday in First District Court, Central Islip.


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Creation by DAMIEN JALET
"An outstanding masterpiece by GöteborgsOperans Danskompani"— Göteborgs-Posten
"Vertiginous, death defying dance"— GT
The stage floor in Damien Jalet's Skid is on a 34-degree incline. The human relationship to gravity and the resistance and abandonment bound to it is what sets the dancers in motion. This new landscape of physical possibilities creates a chain reaction of physical and emotional events – dangerous, humorous, moving.
Choreography Damien Jalet
Music Christian Fennesz
Additional music Marihiko Hara
Set Design Jim Hodges and Carlos Marques da Cruz
Costume Design Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Lighting Design Joakim Brink
Assistant choreographer and guest dancer Aimilios Arapoglou
World premiere 7 November 2017, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani
Dancers 17
Length 45 min
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